I would pack my cities fairly close on a small home continent. Even with only two tiles between cities, each city can still grow to size 8 without any overlap, and they won't get that big for a while, so 2 or 3 tiles between cities is fine.
Keeping London where you put it, you could put a city on the goody hut NW of London, then another city on the forest S of the coal (it will be able to build Iron Works later). A 4th city could go at the NE tip of the island. If you moved London one square SE, you could add a 5th city at the SW tip of the island, but it's probably better to leave London where it is, and road and irrigate the cow in order to make a settler factory. (See Bamspeedy's article on "diety settlers" to figure this out). Basically, if you can set up a city to grow in size by two in the same time it can build a settler, you can crank out settlers continuously.
Gwadaman, there are two things you can do: one is to build a queue for what you want the city to build. Hold shift while you click on "swordsman" to add a swordsman to the queue. shift-click 5 times, and your city will build 5 swords in a row. Also, in "preferences" from the main menu, you can tell the game to prompt you when new production begins, or to not prompt you, etc.
DogmaDog
Keeping London where you put it, you could put a city on the goody hut NW of London, then another city on the forest S of the coal (it will be able to build Iron Works later). A 4th city could go at the NE tip of the island. If you moved London one square SE, you could add a 5th city at the SW tip of the island, but it's probably better to leave London where it is, and road and irrigate the cow in order to make a settler factory. (See Bamspeedy's article on "diety settlers" to figure this out). Basically, if you can set up a city to grow in size by two in the same time it can build a settler, you can crank out settlers continuously.
Gwadaman, there are two things you can do: one is to build a queue for what you want the city to build. Hold shift while you click on "swordsman" to add a swordsman to the queue. shift-click 5 times, and your city will build 5 swords in a row. Also, in "preferences" from the main menu, you can tell the game to prompt you when new production begins, or to not prompt you, etc.
DogmaDog
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) with rules that are especially ment for this Earth map (i.e. AI won't colonize Sahara desert, Antarctica, bigger jungles and so on). Suprisingly it's a hellofalot faster that any other Earth map I've seen. For me, it gave me a reason to continue playing Civilization.
